If you had the chance...
 

If someone offered you the chance to become the next GC would you take it.

First off I posted it in the punk forum on purpose jesus so dont get mad and be like 'well that should be in the almost pop-punk/mainstream/post-emo indie forum'.

Second. I would be a 'sell-out' and consider myself punk and lose all pride in everything for the money they are making off of these little kids.

The Maryland-bred rockers’ recent release, “The Chronicles of Life and Death,” has sold just shy of 200,000 copies since hitting stores October 5. Their sophomore album, “The Young and The Hopeless,” has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. They’ve toured the world over, and most of them are proud homeowners. MSNBC.com

5 million copies? Thats alot of effing money...anyone watch MTV cribs? They got huge houses too.

Shooooot, if someone offered me the "lifestyle of the rich and famous" id take that **** in a heartbeat. I dont care what kind of sacrifices id make and how many friends I'd lose.

Your real friends would be your friend no matter what. Money should be irrelevent between friends.

I'd take the money, the lifestyle, the security for my future family, the lack of financial worries for the rest of my life, sure I would.

I would never be the next GC. i rather be in band that had talent and made little money than be in a band that plays crap music and makes alot of money. Money isn't everything.

lol wasn't planning on it...

^and holy ****



I would never be the next GC. EVER. EVEREVEREVEREVEREVER. I sorta agree with swingkids, money isn't everything. But these days you can't really do **** without money. Which i think is really ****ed up....

but i still wouldn't be the next good charlotte.

...i am a freshman in college, and im so damn poor. Im selling my fav paintball gun just to buy food :(
It sucks...maybe if I was living at home I would say hell no, money isnt everything, but Im dirt ass poor right now so money is everything to me :)

meh, its hard for me to answer that question, cause I would never want that kind of lifestyle. for one, they do have a pretty busy schedule, and that'd take up way too much time that I'm not willing to give up, and two, I honestly would hate being famous, I really enjoy my privacy, and being that exposed to the public would drive me nuts.

haha...yesterday my friend and I were talking about Good Charlotte cause she likes them and she said something about them 'not being that rich' and i was like...'crystal shut up.'

if i had that kind of money knowing me i'd do something stupid like...buy the casualties...no..i dunno. i could understand if you needed money wanting that much of it, but still. it just seems impossible that someone can have it as easy as all the rich people in the world who basically get money handed to them.

no :finger:

so, it's between the dignity of your profession versus money. i would like to believe there is a way to maintain both; good profit in the music industry doesn't only apply to pop/ hip hop artists. sometimes creativity and good live performances are enough to put someone over the edge- then in order to keep mainstream status, you have to come out with music the people want to hear, not what you want to hear. i wonder if that is taught in business school.

Some people need the security of lots of money in their life. I for one feel that less is more, in the sense that when i've had nothing i am enriched more by life's small pleasures.

I hate money. Money is only needed as a mean for posession. I would much much rather play music that made me happy, do what I want, and stay true to my beliefs and make $50 a gig than pretend Im someone I not, not be able to speak freely, and play bad usic for $500 a gig

^ well money helps with other things like food, clothing, rent....kind of neccesary to have money if you want the basic essentials to live you know, plus if you want to get a gig, you need good equipment, which costs money. break a string, yep, more money for more strings.

The point I was trying to makle is that I hate money. I know its a "necessity" but that doesnt change the fact that it causes more evl than good.

^no, money isnt the problem, it's the person who's using it that's to blame.

Or more often the person who WANTS to obtain it.

Yeah money is evil and i think i would do anything to banish it forever and make everything free but lets face up to it that aint gonna happen so if i was really poor and had nowhere else to turn i probably would. But when you do something yourself, it doesn't seem as lame as it is from an outsiders point of view. I would hate being slated by the press all the time though and also people reguarly dismiss GC as crap and talentless and i don't if i could take that kind of abuse. So, no.

Do you think the fanbase of GC is larger than those that dislike them?

I doubt it. i'm not going to deny that they have a large fan base, but there's still the rest of th world (well, those that are exposed to their music) that are either indifferent or dislike them, so I think it's more likely that overall there's more people that dislike/are indifferent than those that make up the fan base.

I don't think it matters to them very much though does it? They can just listen to the people that DO love them, and they're laughing all the way to the bank. Literally.

ya that's pretty accurate. I doubt that they care that there are people who dislike them, because enough people do like their music to make them a hugely successful band. I know if I were in that position I definitely wouldn't think about the people who don't like the music.